Let's get our priorities straight, people!

Source: Smart Phones Helping to Move Business from the Boardroom to the Bathroom

The office may close at 5, but for 89% of  people business is always open.

(89%) believe it’s important to be readily available to colleagues, supervisors and clients at all times, even after business hours. In fact, almost eight in ten (79%) immediately respond to a work email on their smart phone regardless of time of day.

And when they say ‘readily available’, they mean no what matters the circumstances. An astounding 72% admit to taking business calls while on the jon, 59% during the middle of the night, 38% while on a date, 32% in church, 16% at a funeral, and 10% during sex. (Emphasis added.)

Two Things on the Internet Today for a Well Rounded Picture of What's Going on Now

Last night I listened to the Friday Planet Money Podcast "Wall Street Trickery Inflated The Bubble." Then this morning, Frank Rich in the N Y TImes had a piece called "The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party."

The Planet Money podcast points to a ProPublica piece, longer and more detailed, on the shenanigans the CDO rats were up to on the sinking ship of the economy. Rich's piece mentions an article in the New Yorker by Janet Mayer on the billionaire Birchers funding the Tea Party as "useful idiots."  I hope to read both of these expanded articles in the next couple of days.

Portrait of a bunch of managment scumbags

In Mott’s Strike, More Than Pay at Stake (NY Times)

Please boycott all Dr. Pepper/Snapple products until this is resolved in the workers' favor.

Thanks.

Today's favorite quote from the Flying Monkey Right

Activists Take Fight on Immigration to Border (NY Times)

Cindy Kolb, a border activist who lives nearby, yelled out through the thick metal slates in the border fence, which had been decorated on the American side with tiny flags, “Hey, don’t come over here anymore.”


She added: “We don’t like illegals hiding under bushes when our kids wait for the school bus. This border needs to be secure.”

Sniglet: leatherette

A woman, usually over 40, who, from years of visiting tanning salons, has acquired skin with the texture of find Moroccan leather. Such a person is a leatherette.

Sniglet: ignostic

A person who uses religion or religious belief to ignore personal or political problems staring them in the face. Such a person is ignostic.